Historical Facts

Medicine or biomedical scientific research is one of the five prize areas mentioned in Alfred Nobel’s will. This Lab Products initiative is to honor the scientists and researchers who have made the most important discovery within the domain of biomedical scientific research.

Read below about the contribution animals have made to biomedical scientific research below.
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1901

Emil Adolf von Behring

Guinea pig
“for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths”

1902

Ronald Ross

Pigeon
“for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it”

1904

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Dog
“in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged”

1905

Robert Koch

Cow / Sheep
“for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis”

1906

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Camillo Golgi

Dog / Horse
“in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system”

1907

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Bird
“in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases”

1908

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich

Bird / Fish / Guinea Pig
“in recognition of their work on the immune reactions and functions of phagocytes”

1910

Albrecht Kossel

Bird
“in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through his work on proteins, including the nucleic substances”

1912

Alexis Carrel

Dog
“in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs”